Improvement



WILLIAM RICKARDS, Ir. `Improvemen-r in Car CoupIings.`

Patented May30,187.

wvewor @d i ne it kntwnythat nwnmin mamans, gJr., of Franklin, county` of Venango, State of I the attachment, by a joint or hinge tothe i hole in which the coupling-pin may slide back and forth, and from which it is prevented ling-pin with the plate above described, by

\ back or restin a horizontal position when positionfor coupling by simply raising it peri pendicular.

\ onal view of the saine. Fig. 3 is a side view,

` ical form of its ends. y

1 I I Letter A represents a draw-head with a spring-buffer. `E is the plate-attached to the y draw bya joint or hinge.

ofthe coupling-pinto prevent it from being coupling-pin is madeof flatiron with round `round 'iron of the` proper size to the -necesl `by stoving the end after it has been passed joint,as shown in Fig. 5, when the coupling- S'rnirns WILLIAM RICKARDS, Jn., or FRANKLIN, PENN svLvANIA.'

- IMPROVEMENT ln 'CAR-couPLlNcs.

l Specification forming part o f Letters Patent No. 115,522, dated May 30, 1871 antedated May 25, 1871.

To @nahmmmytonmfm c Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Bailroadar Couplings', of which the following isa specification; I

The rst part of my invention relates to uppersurface of the `draw-head, of a plate of iron or other metal,`through which is a from being removedby a head or shoulder on its ends, and the combination of the couppassing through and being held in position andguided by this plate; the object -of this part of my invention being to prevent the coupling-pinV from being entirely removed from the draw-head, and to allow it to lean not wanted in the hole in the drawhead, butin such a way that it may easily be placed in Figure 1 is a sectional view of a draw-head with my invention shown. Fig. 2 is a diagshowing the plate raised and the coupling. pin removedfrom the hole in the draw-head,

and leaning against the platform of the car. Fig. 4 isa view of` the link, showing the coni F is the coupling-pin, K isthe shoulder on the bottom drawn through the hole in the plate E. The

edges, such as f would be made by rolling sary thickness. L The'shoulder would be made through the platedetached from the drawhead or the plate can be open back to the pin can be put in its place and the joint pin put in, which will hold it securp. C isthe `suppose the coupling-pin F, Fig. 1, to be drawn up until the shoulder K is stopped against the plate E. The buffer-head B willV couple with the next car which closes to this l one, the coupling-pin can be removed from the hole in thedraw-head by opening the plate or raising it on its joint and leaning the couplingpin back against the platform of the car, asV shown in Fig. 3, where the plate E is raised.

Should it be found that the platform of the cars is in the way `of the coupling-pin las here represented, the jointcan be cast on either side ofthe hole in the draw-head. The coupling-pin, with this improvement, can be drawn or placed in position for coupling by a cord in the hands of a man on the top-of the v car.

The coupling-link, Fig. 4, shows its conical ends made to fit a corresponding cavity in the end'of the bilder-head, which, being made to revolve in its cylinder, will cause the wear of the buffer-head and the end of the link to be even. y l

- The construction and operation of the buffer and springs are described in Patent No. i

105,491, issued July 19, 1870.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

Isi The plate E, made of iron or other metal,

'attached by a joint or hinge to the top of the draw-head A, with a hole to lsuit the formation of the coupling-pin, arranged and operating on the draw-head in combination with the bolt or coupling-pin, as described, for the purposes set forth. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23 day of September, 1870.

WILLIAM RIGKARDS, JR.` [L.

Witnesses CLARENCE A. RIDGELY, T. G. LINToN.

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